It happens only in India. We have people asking for votes promising that they will take us back to the stone age.
From the manifesto of the Samajwadi Party: "The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines."
Can we get rid of animals too? Oxen are driving the men out of business in the field of cart-pulling. Why have one oxen pulling 400 kilo-loads when the same work can be done by four men and for a much longer time? Can we get rid of the cows providing milk for the Indian populace? Looking at the rate with which we are multiplying, there would definitely be enough lactating mothers to fill those posts. Surely, it would be environmentally friendly too, as we won't have the cow farts which spew tons of methane into the air everyday.
Can we get rid of those vibrators too? I'm guessing the same work can be done by a person using hands, and there is no need to deploy machines for the same. Destroy all sex toys, and provide human substitutes. I'm sure not many would have problems with that.
What about calculators? After all, they are just computers stripped down to the most basic function. Would we see a situation where you have to run to the nearby cycle shop to get the bhaiyyas there to compute the cube root of 60? Because, it can be done by hand and does not need too much brains if you know how to calculate cube roots. Even a bhaiyya could do it. But he would probably need a pen and paper for that, and the logical next step after fighting against computers would be to fight the industrial revolution, mass production and any sort of "western" influence on our farmers. For their benefit. He has already opened that front in his war for ignorance. Take that, agricultural revolution! Take that, civilization!
Our brave Yadav warrior Mulayam opens a new front in the war against the machines. Next up, we could have his close friend's close friend Amitabh Bachchan starring as Mulayam Singh in a desi version of the Matrix. Or Terminator.
"A harvesting season brings employment for the labour class for at least six months but these harvesters (agricultural machines) will snatch their earnings.
The salaries provided by private firms should be in sync with the minimum wages that have been set by the government.
Previous governments have promoted forward trading, share trading and mall culture. Any government formed with our support will either reduce or stop it completely."
How dare the farmers in Punjab use tractors and machines to grow and harvest wheat, when they can grow much less by paying OBC, SC and ST bhaiyyas from India's most populous and backward states up north to perform the role of the oxen mentioned before and the harvesters? We seem to be having too much food already. Mulayam sincerely believes we need to produce less and less food for ourselves.
Regarding the valid point about limiting salaries to the minimum wage, I believe he thinks is correct. After all, why would India need to pay the best of industry more than two dollars a day? After all, when there are no malls, and nobody has any money, we would probably not need more than two dollars a day. We would also probably not need jobs, because when our Yadav warrior comes to power, there will be plenty of fields waiting to be tilled by B.Techs, MBAs and PhDs.
But wait. Our Mulayam has one more ace up his sleeve. He also has a solution to solve the problem of islamic terror faced by India. Terror occurs because of unequal development, so we should dissolve borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
I'm off to the Taliban office in M.G.Road. Anybody else convinced yet?
